Morphing

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art



Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yoyo Ma

'The Store Wars' -- may the farm be with you - a fun video

A fer fun video 'The Store Wars' -- May the Farm be with you.....

Someone having fun with the message. Made Sweetie,a die-hard Star Wars fan chuckle.

Cool digs in the Pacific Northwest

Chris - are you cool enough? Article in the Chicago Tribune about a newly opened hotel in your 'Pearl District' in Portland, Oregon. Video shows the building and room, and it is so 'Pearl District' for sure. Check out the video at the link.

Ace Hotel

Portland,

1022 SW Stark St.,

Portland, Ore.


Beautiful hipsters sip coffee, read magazines and listen to alternative rock music under a vintage hotel sign. Stacked old books and suitcases make up nightstands. Converse sneakers wiggle inside the lobby's black-and-white photo booth.

Welcome to the 79-room Ace Hotel Portland, where chic meets cheap and minimalist flair mixes with military earth tones.

And, despite a retro feel, the hotel also offers Wi-Fi, flat-screen televisions and even turntables in some of the rooms, all uniquely decorated -- some with walls painted by local artists and other touches that mix vintage with modern.

read more and watch the video at this link.

Pit Bull vs. Porcupine

What do you get when a pitbull picks a fight with a porcupine?

A BALD PORCUPINE!


Comments: Apart from the fact that the poor pooch pictured above is mislabeled as a pit bull (she's actually a bull terrier), these pictures are authentic. They were originally posted on a community bulletin board by the dog's owner on May 25, 2005. The terrier's name is Inca.

"Thousands of quills were embedded even in her tongue," her owner explained. "The vets worked for quite some time to get quills out and even still could not get them all. The one's that are left will work themselves out over time. Inca is home and on antibiotics and pain killers."

In a follow-up post dated July 13, Inca's owner reported that "she is just fine and has just the odd broken bit come out once in awhile. Other than that she is back to her old self."

Moral of the story: Dogs and porcupines don't mix.

from About.com Urban Legends and Folklore

Now for some solid information about removing porcupine quills, see article at The Pet Center.com

Having watched our own dog and my mother's dog suffer with their first encounter with porcupines, I'm in favor of taking the dog to the vet and letting them anesthisize the dog, remove the quills rather than try to pull them out myself. We had a neighbor who's dog encountered a porcupine and the neighbor used a treatment that I wouldn't recommend or so we heard when we inquired if the dog was okay. Had to do with dousing the dog with gasoline and yanking out the quills. Not sure the point of using gasoline, but hey - it's still a shade of the wild west where we live, so who knows where this remedy came from over the generations.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse 1940 (Galloping Gertie)

Galloping Gertie - the Tacoma Narrows Bridge sways, swings, gyrates, and collapses 3 months after it is built in 1940. Two different videos share the news. A) studious, factual depcition and B) 1940ish sensationalized newsreel footage.

The Evolution of Dance guy

One of my all time favorites! The Evolution of Dance guy

Canoeing on Willapa Bay to Long Island

A video that explores a canoe trip of the estuaries of Willapa Bay (Long Island). Looks like what we look at every day living on Willapa Bay. Pleased to have found this google video - sharing it here.